One thing’s better when Labour’s in oppostion – Dennis Skinner in full attack mode. This time though, the Lib Dems aren’t sitting behind him. What a treat!
Posts under ‘Lib-Dems’
How does Con-Dem Libertarianism stack up?
May 25th, 2010 by Liz Davies.New Labour’s shameful record on civil liberties could have allowed Nick Clegg and David Cameron to pose as defenders of human rights. The Liberal Democrats and the Tories had joined together to oppose new Labour’s 90-day and then 42-day detention without charge. They had defended the right to trial by jury.
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The bankers set out to destroy industry – and Vince Cable
May 25th, 2010 by Ann Pettifor.So Sir James Sassoon has joined the Eton boy, Osborne, and the Barclays banker, David Laws, at the Treasury, as Commercial Secretary – a post invented and designed for him. Sir James was vice chairman Investment Banking at UBS Warburg between1985-2002, where he specialised in privatisations. The capture of the Treasury by the City of […]
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Will Vince force countries to report by country?
May 23rd, 2010 by Richard Murphy.The Telegraph reported this weekend that “Vince Cable, the new Business Secretary, has placed tackling tax avoidance by businesses at the top of his list of priorities.” That’s welcome news, albeit that as he’s not a Treasury minister, it might seem a little surprising. Or is it?
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A Marriage of Convenience?
May 13th, 2010 by Nyta Mann.click for photo credit Conservative leader David Cameron waxed lyrical about coalition and partnership at his joint press conference with Nick Clegg yesterday. But this is strictly a marriage of convenience. Labour + Liberal Democrats could have made very good sense – but those Labour MPs who emerged to decry any form of coalition with […]
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Bankers in charge of the Treasury
May 13th, 2010 by Ann Pettifor.With a backdrop of bankers looting the EU’s Treasuries (via a bailout that rivals George Bush’s TARP) let us consider one of the most significant Lib Dem-Con cabinet appointments (and a non-appointment). That of someone who until now was invisible: David Laws the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury. His Wikipedia profile (updated on the […]
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A Nightmare Scenario
May 12th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.I accept what has rapidly become the conventional Labour wisdom: acceptance of defeat and a period of opposition to reflect on the reasons for it is in Labour’s and, if the coalition comes unstuck before too long, the country’s best interest. The alternative was also not a “progressive alliance” but, as Mark Seddon argued at […]
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On Liberal coalition narratives
May 12th, 2010 by Dave Semple.So the Lib-Dems have not only put a Conservative government into office, they’ve gone into coalition. Clegg is to be Deputy Prime Minister and Cable may end up as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. What’s evident is how all the holier-than-thou Lib-Dems are getting to sleep at night, however: blaming Labour for the whole thing. […]
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Coalitions – and closed doors
May 10th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.So here we have it, what so many of you are longing for: Small groups of politicians meeting behind closed doors. Day after day. Endless speculation on The News, but no news. Days going by.
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Coalitions – For or Against the Cuts?
May 10th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.“New Labour is dead – discuss”. Well, before the treatises and dissertations are penned on the sudden and final death of New Labour, let us consider this. Labour, despite the albatross of Lord Mandelson’s “Blair plus” manifesto, despite the bizarre reappearances of Tony Blair and in spite of a campaign based on the defeatism of […]
